Removing Decals

Alollo Dean · 04-08-2020, 09:51 PM

Hi all, I'm expecting my Apollo 250cc soon and I was wondering if anyone has removed the numbers that come on the bike? I'm just not a fan of them and was wondering how difficult they are to remove. Thanks

kingofqueenz · 04-09-2020, 08:11 AM

Not specific to Apollo, but I recently removed all decals from my TBR7

Buckle down for a nightmare my friend.

I tried EVERYTHING!!!! every dumb video on the internet , oil, WD40, GOOF OFF, GOO b GONE...nothing worked well.

WHAT WORKED?

Heat the decals a bit with blow dryer to remove easier ( will leave glue film behind )

Lots of gasoline on a wet rag and upon saturating the decals, you then take a rough sponge and make small circles to bunch up the glue into sticky balls and then spray the plastic with WD 40 and wipe the glue balls off clean.

Jpman3 · 04-09-2020, 08:24 AM

Heat gun is the way to go.

Kenstogie · 04-09-2020, 01:27 PM

mine are pretty much falling off on there own... I have pulled off a few of them already... I am tempted to put a couple RMZ Suzuki stickers I have as a joke but i have to much respect for the Suzuki's I have had so I probably won't

Ninjaguy23 · 04-09-2020, 01:33 PM

A heat gun, WD40 & lots of elbow grease!!

Cheers!!

Goob · 04-09-2020, 02:30 PM

I used a heat gun to loosen them up. Then, I found that some of them came off really easy. The others left goo. I tried acetone first, but it just balled up the goo.

I got some goo-gone and that worked. It took a while, but it worked.

I was told by the Hardware guy (in the paint department) to use goo-gone because it is less harsh on plastic than goof-off. But if goo-gone hadn't worked I would have tried goof-off.

Here are before and after photos. I left a few decals...just so it wouldn't be all black & white.

kingofqueenz · 04-09-2020, 07:12 PM

I'm all about removing the decals... like my TBR7 look without the decals

Scarecrow · 04-09-2020, 07:16 PM

The stickers on my hawk came off easy. Peeled right off

alex_in_az · 04-09-2020, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingofqueenz

Not specific to Apollo, but I recently removed all decals from my TBR7

Buckle down for a nightmare my friend.

I tried EVERYTHING!!!! every dumb video on the internet , oil, WD40, GOOF OFF, GOO b GONE...nothing worked well.

WHAT WORKED?

Heat the decals a bit with blow dryer to remove easier ( will leave glue film behind )

Lots of gasoline on a wet rag and upon saturating the decals, you then take a rough sponge and make small circles to bunch up the glue into sticky balls and then spray the plastic with WD 40 and wipe the glue balls off clean.

I got my bike in September, didn't need to heat the decals up to get them off

Alollo Dean · 04-09-2020, 11:42 PM

Freaking cool, just the fact they will come off without a PhD and not take a month! Thank you

kingofqueenz · 04-09-2020, 11:52 PM

I'm completely jealous of some of these stories ..... I'd rather snake a waste drain line with my bare hands than remove those decals again

BigFatAl · 04-10-2020, 11:08 PM

HA HA,you guys are lucky my DLX stickers peeled off in my hands as I was working on it.I wasn’t dead set on removing some of them but they all peeled off in less than 5 minutes.

04-08-2020, 09:51 PM	#1
Alollo Dean Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Oregon Posts: 62	Removing Decals Hi all, I'm expecting my Apollo 250cc soon and I was wondering if anyone has removed the numbers that come on the bike? I'm just not a fan of them and was wondering how difficult they are to remove. Thanks
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04-09-2020, 01:27 PM	#4
Kenstogie Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 336	mine are pretty much falling off on there own... I have pulled off a few of them already... I am tempted to put a couple RMZ Suzuki stickers I have as a joke but i have to much respect for the Suzuki's I have had so I probably won't __________________ been around bikes for a while.... honda 72 cb200t, zuki 96?/2002 katana, 12 vstrom,09 vstar, kawi ltd440, 82 zuki Gs1100, Tao Tbr7 all about the Tao MotorsTBR7 http://www.chinariders.net/showthread.php?t=25553
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04-09-2020, 08:11 AM	#2
kingofqueenz Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: Strong Island New Yawk Posts: 464	Not specific to Apollo, but I recently removed all decals from my TBR7 Buckle down for a nightmare my friend. I tried EVERYTHING!!!! every dumb video on the internet , oil, WD40, GOOF OFF, GOO b GONE...nothing worked well. WHAT WORKED? Heat the decals a bit with blow dryer to remove easier ( will leave glue film behind ) Lots of gasoline on a wet rag and upon saturating the decals, you then take a rough sponge and make small circles to bunch up the glue into sticky balls and then spray the plastic with WD 40 and wipe the glue balls off clean.
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04-09-2020, 08:24 AM	#3
Jpman3 Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 34	Heat gun is the way to go.
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04-09-2020, 01:33 PM	#5
Ninjaguy23 Join Date: Apr 2020 Location: Tacoma, Washington Posts: 36	A heat gun, WD40 & lots of elbow grease!! Cheers!!
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04-09-2020, 07:16 PM	#8
Scarecrow Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 7	The stickers on my hawk came off easy. Peeled right off
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04-09-2020, 11:42 PM	#10
Alollo Dean Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Oregon Posts: 62	Freaking cool, just the fact they will come off without a PhD and not take a month! Thank you
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04-09-2020, 11:52 PM	#11
kingofqueenz Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: Strong Island New Yawk Posts: 464	I'm completely jealous of some of these stories ..... I'd rather snake a waste drain line with my bare hands than remove those decals again
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04-10-2020, 11:08 PM	#12
BigFatAl Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 112	HA HA,you guys are lucky my DLX stickers peeled off in my hands as I was working on it.I wasn’t dead set on removing some of them but they all peeled off in less than 5 minutes.
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